Thunderbird AddOns are extensions for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, written in XUL and Javascript.
Thunderbird AddOns are extensions for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. They are written mostly in XUL (a flavor of XML) and Javascript.
Questions tagged [thunderbird-addon]
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How to access the body of the email message being composed?
I created a toolbar button in message Compose Toolbar Palette.
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Get sender and recipients in Thunderbird extension upon sending message
I'm playing around trying to create a Thunderbird extension, one of the bootstrapped/restartless type (I mean, javascript code is not run from overlays. Instead listeners fire for various events).
At some point I'd like to check the sender and…
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Thunderbird addon: Disable toolbar button programmatically
I've built a small Thunderbird addon that adds a toolbar button. It works as expected.
However there are cases that the button should look disabled. This is similar to "Reply" and "Reply All" buttons of Thunderbird. If there is no email selected,…
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ProtoBuf Js in thunderbird extension
Hi I want to parse a mail in a thunderbird extension and then use protobuf to send some component to a server. My question is how to include the protobuf api and use it with my extension, how to do something like : "script…
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Get the name of a Thunderbird attachment
Is there a way to get the filename and/or filepath of an attachments from the current TB message?
I tried this (HERE is the link):
function AttachmentNames() {
var attachments = instanceOfMozMmsMessage.attachments;
}
with different alerts…
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How to create a new message folder in thunderbird
I'm trying to develop a thunderbird extension and i need to create a message folder in folder pane where to move some messages.Can anyone help me how to create that folder.
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Change name of the folder with mozilla thunderbird extension
I'm not experienced in creating ff/thunderbird extensions, but I have to modify one open source addon, and the easiest way to reach what I want is to change name of one folder. My question is: how to do it, having path and name of the folder?
Thanks…
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Mozilla Thunderbird Addon - Create Task
I am beginner to Mozilla Addons Development. I need some help for developing a functionality ie. Assign task Manager it is like Lightning Addon.
When I would click on a button a popup should come asking for subject, start date, due date,…
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Modify Mozilla preferences from extension
This is difficult to research, because all the keywords are quite generic...
A Thunderbird extension that I just wrote warrants changes in Thunderbird's main preferences dialog, because one particular setting collides with the extension's function…
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Failed to remove attachment in Thunderbird AddOn
I try to remove a particular attachment which I know his path in var SomeAddOnName.MessengerCompose.filePathCurrent with the following instructions :
//Construct reference attachment
var fileAttachmentBefore =…
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Using cfx to make a Thunderbird addin
I'm trying to make a Thunderbird addon that will call external code to produce a lump of data to attach to an outbound email, labelled as some custom type so a recipient mailer can just be told to use our app to handle such inbound attachments.…
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Thunderbird Add-Ons Development basics
I'm trying to follow the tutorial at
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Extensions/Thunderbird/Creating_a_Custom_Column
but show the sender's email address in the new column instead of Reply-To value.
I tried everything I can think of and…
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Mutating MIME parts with Thunderbird extension
I have a JavaScript function which operates on strings, and I’d like to write a Thunderbird extension to apply it to every MIME part in an outgoing message – both inline parts like the body and any attachments. However, I can’t find the API call I…
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API changes in Thunderbird 24
Is there a list of the breaking API changes in Thundebird 24? So it is possible to easier find incompatibilities in addons.
The difficulty is that error console does not show any error or warning, so it is quite hard to locate the bug caused by the…
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Thunderbird Extension: Get the mail HTML and Object
how can I get the mail HTML (I mean his body) and the Object on a Thunderbird extension? My intention is to automatically _POST this elements to a webpage.
Thank's
Valerio
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